I have the pleasure today of moderating this conversation between two outstanding policymakers and scholars. And the us china relationship. And working in the Defense Department and mongolia and the commissioner congressionally mandated Security Review Commission and the author of a terrific new book which is called the china nightmare. And we will be talking about it with him and with retired Lieutenant General hr mcmaster. And a reputation and military service one of those adaptive mines in the American Military i am delighted to have both of them here with us today. I am sorry neglected to say hr is also the author of a new book called battleground. Thank you both for making time for china policy. Thank you very much thank you for your leadership at aei and mr. Mcmaster for joining us. And to have reshaped china policy last few years. I am very thankful as we all are for doing that. The china nightmare, what does my book mean by that . China certainly has grand ambitions and power b
Boost the recovery. Larry summers says the coordinated Global Response is needed. And airbnb books an ipo in new york, aiming to list shares on the nasdaq. Booking through september a total of 18 billion. Although it admits covid19 continues to affect the business. Lets take a look at the asx. More than normal when it comes to the australian soft market after it had the data disruption out. Yesterday was the longest outage in about a decade. Of course, it meant australian traders missed out on the bulk of the days rally. Only trading for a halfhour. We are seeing a pretty modest start, less than 2 10 of 1 higher at the open. Perhaps some caution there could be more technical difficulties. We are seeing gains when it comes to trading in new zealand. Nikkei future setting off on a bad foot as we are seeing some profittaking. It does look like the vaccine driven optimism and the rather we saw overnight will continue, with s p active futures in the positive. Shery we have breaking news at
Who passed away this summer theres not a lot of last left. Or for trump in that area so i wouldnt be surprised if we would see bidens. By then it should expand a little bit there and trump simply cannot afford to lose georgia if you looses georgies and it would be the 1st time since 1902 since both that im not in the type of state so i also be because its such a tight race i mean expect trumps team to maybe fall some lawsuits if they can somehow challenge the count there ok tell us a little bit about the timeline now because this is the 1000000. 00 question when could we see some of these states starts to close and because weve heard in the next couple of hours for example we could get some new results from pennsylvania they they apparently are are counting quite rapidly down there and what are we looking at hours days well pennsylvania said we could expect more results already by for today friday later tonight. Were looking at about 163000. 00 votes left to be counted trump is up ther
Have held a Memorial Ceremony for the victims. Germanys Health Minister says the Health Care System could be overwhelmed if the covert caseload is not brought under control and was speaking as germany top 20000 new infections for the 1st time the virus is hitting many european states even harder now than when it was 1st arriving here. A new somber record for germany the highest number of 1000 cases ever registered in the country germany is in its 1st week of a new partial lockdown restaurants bars and leisure activities are shut down travel for tourism is strongly discouraged while shops and schools are allowed to stay open. Germanys Health Minister yes spahn said the countrys Health Care System is not currently overwhelmed but hard times are ahead if the rise in cases isnt stopped. The situation is serious the number of people requiring support in intensive care units has doubled in the past 10 days from as of today our Health System is still coping but even the best system in the wor
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